"The bleeting edge: Blog and Tweet or Perish" talk by Jonathan Eisen for #PublicationMismatches

Slides by Jonathan Eisen for BIS2C at UC Davis Spring 2014

The Bleeting Edge: Blog & Tweet or Perish

!Jonathan A. Eisen

April 17, 2014 !

Publication Mismatches Workshop

1990-1995

Tree of Life Blog: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com

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• 2006 - started “Tree of Life” blog while at SciFoo meeting

• 2014 !Some 3000 subscribers !50,000+ hits per month !> 4,000,000 hits total !Routine citations / references in

popular and scholarly literature

• 2006 - started “Tree of Life” blog while at SciFoo meeting

• 2014 !Some 3000 subscribers !50,000+ hits per month !> 4,000,000 hits total

Tree of Life Blog: http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com

Twitter @phylogenomics Started in ~2010

Blog and Tweet citations

Twitter in Academia

Twitter in Biomedicine

Scholarly Credit

Martin Weller: Blogging Credit

Where to List on Google Scholar?

Where to List for UC Davis Tenure/Merit/Promotion?

Altmetrics of limited breadth

Not everyone accepts alternative media

Rewards for Blogging, Tweeting

Education